Ergebnis für "MAiA" in Krimis

Robert Langdon, respeitado professor de Simbologia, vai a Praga para assistir a uma palestra revolucionária de Katherine Solomon – uma proeminente cientista e intelectual com quem ele recentemente iniciou um relacionamento.

La aparición de dos chicas jóvenes inconscientes y con heridas graves a la entrada del Hospital Civil de Venecia pone a Brunetti y Griffoni tras la pista de dos jóvenes venecianos que podrían haber incurrido en un delito de omisión del deber de socorro. Se trata de Marcelo Vio y Filiberto Duso, dos amigos desde la infancia, muy diferentes entre sí: Duso trabaja como abogado para la firma de su padre, mientras Vio dejó de estudiar de niño y se gana la vida trabajando para su tío, que tiene un negocio de transporte de mercancías y una pequeña flota de barcas.

After a local couple's path to the altar is sabotaged, retired spy Irma Abercrombie and sun-deprived nerd Violet Blackheart get roped into lending a hand sorting out the duo's wedding woes—and all the bodies. Meanwhile, Violet preps for her business partner's island arrival—blender drinks at the ready—as Irma secretly tries to track down Violet's former CFO...and their company's former money.

When one of Irma's friends asks for help vetting a potential suitor, she's sure that a little digging into his past will do the trick. But after she discovers that a robotic appliance might be on a rampage in the almost-beau's swanky houseboat community, she sets out to entice Violet into unravelling another technological snafu.

It's summertime on Lake Ontario's Beaver Island, and there's trouble on the horizon. When a remote-controlled tractor goes berserk at the ground-breaking for a new condo development—toppling some magnificent cupcakes in the process—retired spy Irma Abercrombie's finely-honed paranoia goes into overdrive. And after a beloved local is murdered, she and nerdy houseguest Violet Blackheart are drawn into another island intrigue.

Former spy Irma Abercrombie wasn't looking for drama when she invited Violet Blackheart—a brainy, sun-deprived acquaintance—for a visit at her island home. But after an armed robbery in town goes terribly wrong, Irma gets pulled into an island intrigue: Was it a simple snatch and grab, or are there darker forces at work?

Robert Langdon, o famoso professor de Simbologia de Harvard, chega ao Museu Guggenheim de Bilbao para assistir a uma apresentação sobre uma grande descoberta que promete abalar os alicerces de todas as religiões e mudar para sempre a face da ciência. O anfitrião é o futurólogo e bilionário Edmond Kirsch, que se tornou conhecido por suas previsões audaciosas e invenções de alta tecnologia. O ex-aluno de Langdon está prestes a revelar uma revolução no conhecimento, algo que vai responder a duas perguntas fundamentais da existência humana: De onde viemos? Para onde vamos?

It’s leaf-peeping season in Naneda, New York, and Agnes Blythe has settled into helping her eccentric Great Aunt Effie restore the Stagecoach Inn. It seems nothing can shatter the golden idyll—or the ka-ching of cash registers—until a mechanic at Hatch Automotive is found bludgeoned to death with a wrench. Sweeping into action, Agnes and Aunt Effie are on the scene, when a tourist-laden motor coach breaks down outside of town. The Stagecoach Inn isn’t exactly ready for guests, but Agnes and Effie agree to take in a group of seniors while they wait for repairs.

When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of manipulative Kathleen Todd, with whom Agnes and Effie both have recently had words. Words strong enough to land them at the top of the suspect list.

Esta no es la típica historia de detectives, aunque sí es la historia de un detective. William Warwick siempre ha querido ser detective. Por ello, y en contra de los deseos de su padre, el Consejero de la Reina Sir Julian Warwick, decide alejarse de la tradición familiar de estudiar abogacía, tradición que sí ha seguido su hermana Grace, y se une al Cuerpo de Policía Metropolitana de Londres.

Un apasionante caso lleno de actualidad sobre la contaminación y la especulación del suministro de agua en Venecia. Desde la residencia donde pasa sus últimos días postrada en una cama, Benedetta Toso, enferma de cáncer con apenas treinta y ocho años, quiere hablar con Brunetti de algo que no quiere llevarse consigo a la tumba. Débil y al borde de la muerte, la mujer apenas consigue tener algún momento de lucidez y esbozar algunas frases sueltas que implican a su marido, Vittorio Fadalto, muerto recientemente en un accidente de tráfico, con un dinero obtenido de forma ilegal y que, en consecuencia, su muerte fue en realidad un asesinato.

¿Y si proteger a tu familia no significase hacer lo correcto? Una mujer atormentada deberá enfrentarse a este dilema en la nueva investigación del comisario Brunetti. Mientras se enfrenta a un problema de posibles filtraciones dentro de la Questura, Brunetti recibe por sorpresa a una amiga de Paola, su mujer, muy preocupada por la extraña actitud de su hijo adolescente. Cuando a medianoche el marido de la amiga aparece inconsciente y con graves daños cerebrales a los pies de un puente de Venecia, Brunetti empieza a pensar que el caso tiene que ver con el comportamiento de su hijo.

Un compositor olvidado, un crimen rodeado de misterio, dos artistas unidas en un proyecto sin precedentes: Cecilia Bartoli redescubre su música en Mission, Donna Leon novela la historia en Las joyas del Paraíso. Caterina Pellegrini, experta en ópera del Barroco, rastrea la existencia de una valiosa herencia en unos documentos hallados por los descendientes de un genial compositor vinculado a la Iglesia católica. Caterina se adentra en la Venecia de finales del siglo XVII, investigando, sin proponérselo, la supuesta implicación del músico en el crimen más famoso de la época.

William Warwich ha sido ascendido a Detective Sargento, aunque su ascenso implica que tanto él como el resto de su equipo han de ser reasignados a la Brigada Antidroga. De inmediato se les encarga encontrar a Ahmed Rashedi, un famoso traficante que dirige una extensa red en la parte sur de Londres. A medida que avanza la investigación, William se topa con enemigos tanto antiguos como nuevos.

When Aaron Burgess is found slumped over the steering wheel of his tractor and rushed to the Underwood Medical Clinic by his friend and business partner Quito Escobar, no one expected that the situation would turn into a homicide investigation. But when it does, newly licensed private investigator Devereaux Sinclair and her fiance Jake Del Vecchio are hired to find the murderer. Was Aaron a random victim of some psycho killer or was his murder something much much more personal?

Opening up a dime store in her hometown of Shadow Bend, Missouri, Devereaux "Dev" Sinclair thought she'd left the wilds of city life behind her. But she's about to discover that even rural life can be beastly. Handsome private investigator Jake Del Vecchio has rented the office space on the second floor above Devereaux's dime store, and Dev now finds herself embroiled in his first case, which involves Gabriella Winston, the missing wife of wealthy philanthropist Elliot Winston.

Shadow Bend's library closed years ago because of budgetary problems, so when a wealthy benefactor offers to reopen it, everyone, including Dev, is thrilled. But Dev's excitement wanes when she realizes the mysterious donor is actually her runaway mother Yvette's latest husband, Jett Benedict. Dev suspects that Yvette and Jett's intentions aren't as noble as they appear, but before she can discover what they're really up to, Jett turns up dead - and all clues point to Yvette as the prime suspect.

Kizzy Cutler finds it so delicious to be back in her hometown of Shadow Bend, Missouri, that she seems to have forgotten why she fled 20 years ago. For now, she's excited to kick off her new line of cupcakes with a competition, which Dev has agreed to host in her shop. But before the first yummy cupcake is even baked, Kizzy's assistant, Fallon, dies from a mysterious ailment.

Opening an old-fashioned five-and-dime shop in her small Missouri hometown has been a great change for Devereaux “Dev” Sinclair. But when she hosts a reading group there, she learns that bad writing can mean life or death. To keep her new business in the black, Dev opens up her shop to local clubs. But in the first meeting of the Stepping Out Book Club, the speaker storms out after members attack his poetry’s sexism and scorn for small towns.

Devereaux Sinclair loves running her old-fashioned store in her small Missouri hometown. If only murder didn’t keep landing on her doorstep.… Dev’s five-and-dime may be doing well, but her love life is in turmoil. She’s torn between Deputy U.S. Marshal Jake Del Vecchio, who is on an undercover assignment, and her ex-beau Noah Underwood, the local doctor from a high-society family. So she welcomes the distraction when Elise Whitmore offers her a deal on antique chocolate molds that would be perfect for her Easter gift baskets. But do the molds actually belong to Elise’s soon-to-be ex-husband?